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Infinity War (Spoiler-ish)
7 years ago
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So, I very much enjoy marvel movies. I was never a big fan of them as a kid, but my damn best friend got me into them and I've watched every single one with him in the past year. Yesterday we saw Infinity War, and...
Well, I have VERY mixed feelings. It was, holistically, a fantastic movie, as most marvel movies are. Plenty of action, plenty of great story, pretty funny, and it also provided all the characters coming together and finally meeting like we were all waiting for.
Now, the ending is where everybody is upset about, and for good reason. I, personally, left the theater feeling shocked, confused, and kind of offended.
Here's the thing. From a cinematic and literary viewpoint, the ending was fucking genius.
This is pretty fucked up, but I was kind of hoping for a bad ending, since most movies end with goodness and righteousness prevailing. Some sacrifices are made, some people die, but things generally turn out okay. Now, if I were the director, I would've probably ended the movie immediately after Thanos wins, and all the characters are standing around just frozen and shock at what just happened. Kind of like the ending of Godfather II, where there's just a slow, well executed zoom in and no other explanation, providing the viewer with the agony of imagining the following events.
However, the actual ending to Infinity War, as insulting as it was, was just so perfect in that it was so insulting. It was just so harsh, so blunt, and so sudden, that it created this sense of complete hopelessness. The characters that survived weren't crying or screaming in agony, they were just watching everything in shocked horror. And we literally could do nothing but sit there and just watch these deaths, which were so sudden and brutal that the entirety was more impactful than any long, drawn-out, agonizing death I have ever seen.
My friend theorized that this could all be fixed by the implementation of an alternate timeline or even going back in time, since those are apparently canonical in the comics. However, I absolutely hate this idea, and part of me wants to leave the dead characters dead, and let the alive characters somehow solve everything, but in a way that still leaves everyone who is dead still dead. Maybe I'm just a sadistic bastard, but I don't want a series as dark as this to end with sunshine and rainbows.
Well, I have VERY mixed feelings. It was, holistically, a fantastic movie, as most marvel movies are. Plenty of action, plenty of great story, pretty funny, and it also provided all the characters coming together and finally meeting like we were all waiting for.
Now, the ending is where everybody is upset about, and for good reason. I, personally, left the theater feeling shocked, confused, and kind of offended.
Here's the thing. From a cinematic and literary viewpoint, the ending was fucking genius.
This is pretty fucked up, but I was kind of hoping for a bad ending, since most movies end with goodness and righteousness prevailing. Some sacrifices are made, some people die, but things generally turn out okay. Now, if I were the director, I would've probably ended the movie immediately after Thanos wins, and all the characters are standing around just frozen and shock at what just happened. Kind of like the ending of Godfather II, where there's just a slow, well executed zoom in and no other explanation, providing the viewer with the agony of imagining the following events.
However, the actual ending to Infinity War, as insulting as it was, was just so perfect in that it was so insulting. It was just so harsh, so blunt, and so sudden, that it created this sense of complete hopelessness. The characters that survived weren't crying or screaming in agony, they were just watching everything in shocked horror. And we literally could do nothing but sit there and just watch these deaths, which were so sudden and brutal that the entirety was more impactful than any long, drawn-out, agonizing death I have ever seen.
My friend theorized that this could all be fixed by the implementation of an alternate timeline or even going back in time, since those are apparently canonical in the comics. However, I absolutely hate this idea, and part of me wants to leave the dead characters dead, and let the alive characters somehow solve everything, but in a way that still leaves everyone who is dead still dead. Maybe I'm just a sadistic bastard, but I don't want a series as dark as this to end with sunshine and rainbows.
